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Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Movement Gets BIG – and Its Enemies Reveal Themselves
04 Jun 2020
The decrepit racial capitalist order appears to be unraveling under the weight of coronavirus, economic depression, and a quantitative leap in people’s willingness to confront power through the politics of the street. “The Black Misleadership Class’s identification with Power has become all but…
Jones Manoel
Western Marxism Loves Purity and Martyrdom, But Not Real Revolution
10 Jun 2020
It is impossible to speak seriously about Marxism in the West without incorporating the role of Christianity in each social formation. “Western Marxism has taken a historic distance from the concrete experiences of socialist transition in the Soviet Union, China, Viet Nam, and Cuba.”
K. Scott
Ooh La La: Atlanta’s Mayor Keisha and Civil Rights Myths in the Black “Mecca”
10 Jun 2020
Mayor Lance Bottoms brought in troops to occupy her city while claiming that protesters dishonored the memory of MLK. “The political graffiti on Atlanta's walls read ‘F--- Killer Mike,’ ‘F--- TI’ and ‘F--- KKKeisha.’"
Ethan Johnson
Incandescent Whiteness: Dispatch from Portland, Oregon
10 Jun 2020
We are murdered, but there is no recourse because there is no crime. No death occurred because we are not human. “Oregon started out being the only state in the nation with a Black exclusion law in its founding constitution.”
Mark P. Fancher
Global Africa Must Defeat Global Imperialist Policing
10 Jun 2020
Africans have flooded into the streets of Britain, Germany, Brazil, France and many other countries, not only in solidarity, but also as part of their own resistance. “Police officers and sheriffs are very much a part of a broader, global military enterprise.” It can’t be said that the…
Earl Hazell
White Images, Black Reality: How to Talk to the Accidental Apologists for Monsters
10 Jun 2020
The author offers some thoughts on how to deal with white people that seek to dominate Black political discussion on social media. “Black people equal or superior to you intellectually can defensively analyze these impulses contextually, without a white person monitoring, judging, or…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Douglas Flowe’s “Uncontrollable Blackness”
10 Jun 2020
Black men are besieged by an American crucible uniquely designed for them in the early twentieth century. “’Crime’ is often defined by those in power to protect their positions, and is primarily produced by structures of inequality.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Elizabeth R. Baer’s “The Genocidal Gaze”
10 Jun 2020
In Southwest Africa the Germans devised the methodology which they would re-use in the Holocaust thirty years later. “When the Germans killed 80,000 Africans with impunity and without reprisal, the German population back in Europe became inured to the idea of genocide.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
10 Jun 2020
This week police brutality and racism in the United States and Brazil were on your minds.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Africa’s Response to the George Floyd Murder
10 Jun 2020
Outrage towards the US emanated from the Congo, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, all condemning the killing. “Africa’s relation to the Floyd murder was swift and resolute.”